{"id":101770,"date":"2024-12-11T08:30:31","date_gmt":"2024-12-11T13:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/?p=101770"},"modified":"2024-12-11T06:40:37","modified_gmt":"2024-12-11T11:40:37","slug":"keith-whitley-documentary-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2024\/12\/keith-whitley-documentary-coming\/","title":{"rendered":"Keith Whitley Documentary Coming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The late, great Keith Whitley is getting his own documentary, and there&#8217;s a big name attached to produce it.<\/p>\n<p>Keith had a bunch of hits in a short span of time, including &#8220;Don&#8217;t Close Your Eyes&#8221; in 1988. He also did &#8220;When You Say Nothing at All&#8221; seven years before it was a hit for Allison Krauss.<\/p>\n<p>Sadly, Keith died in &#8217;89 of alcohol poisoning at age 34.<\/p>\n<p>He only put out three albums, but they were filled with hits.<\/p>\n<p>The documentary was announced on Instagram yesterday by Blake Shelton, who&#8217;s signed on to co-produce.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Keith Whitley released only three albums during his life, but his music has influenced generations of country music artists. I&#8217;m proud and honored we get to bring his incredible story to film.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>They&#8217;re set to start shooting it next month.<\/p>\n<p>Blake said it&#8217;ll also include archival footage from the Country Music Hall of Fame, and from Keith&#8217;s wife Lorrie Morgan.<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"insta-iframe\" src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DDZ2CyLucSV\/embed\/captioned\" width=\"auto\" height=\"auto\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display:inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height:0;\"  class=\"mce_SELRES_start\"><\/span><\/iframe>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The late, great Keith Whitley is getting his own documentary, and there&#8217;s a big name attached to produce it.","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":86647,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[464],"tags":[484,2358,7339,3846],"class_list":["post-101770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-blake-shelton","tag-documentary","tag-keith-whitley","tag-lorrie-morgan"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-24 01:52:22","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/cknx.ca\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2024\/12\/keith-whitley-documentary-coming\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101770"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101771,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101770\/revisions\/101771"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}